Anoka Ramsey Community College -- Coon Rapids Campus

English 2235: American Literature Since 1865

Course Handouts -- American Literature 1914-1945

(a.k.a. Modernism)


General Information:

Modernism Lecture

Basic Study Guide for Introduction to 1914-1945

Scott's Outline for the Introduction to 1914-1945

Various Lists and Groups of Writers 1914-1945

Scott's Recommendations for Poetry 1914-1945

So What is "Modernism" Anyway? -- Ideas from Our Authors' Headnotes

Frontier Literature

Harlem Renaissance

A Quick Introduction to Poetry #1

A Quick Introduction to Poetry #2

Notes on Blank Verse

Dramatic Monologues

Dramatic Dialogues

Notes on Imagism

Notes on Free Verse

Poems about Poetry


Specific Authors (alphabetical by last name):

Cather:

Willa Cather -- Questions

Willa Cather -- Group Work

Willa Cather -- Discussion Questions

Eliot:

T. S. Eliot (ADD)

T. S. Eliot and the Crash Test Dummies

Faulkner:

William Faulkner (ADD)

Frost:

Robert Frost (ADD)

Glaspell:

Susan Glaspell -- Notes

Susan Glaspell -- Questions

Hemingway:

Ernest Hemingway -- Discussion Points

Ernest Hemingway -- General Notes

Ernest Hemingway -- Discussion Questions

Hughes:

Langston Hughes (ADD)

Hurston:

Zora Neale Hurston

Moore:

Marianne Moore (ADD)

Porter:

Katherine Anne Porter -- Discussion Questions

Katherine Anne Porter -- Notes

Stevens:

Wallace Stevens (ADD)

Williams:

William Carlos Williams (ADD)